[SOLVED] 100% Disk Usage on Dell Inspirion Laptop

[b00tsnspurs]

Hello there.

I have been having this issue for over a year now. I got my laptop 2 or so years ago and it worked great up until March of last year. It started booting up with 100 percent disk usage and sitting at 100.

I originally bought this laptop for gaming and have only used it to game. I did not use it much at all, so it is still fairly new. (Maybe 30 or so hours of gaming on it). Otherwise I used my desktop.

I tried multiple things last year to fix it, and eventually got fed up and left it be. Now I need the laptop to replace another computer, so I need it working.

I watched official Dell support videos on this issue, and nothing in the video helped me. I disabled SuperFetch, Windows Search, etc. I did a hard drive scan with support assist. I finally decided to reset the computer to factory settings and removing all my files. The issue is still there.

Right now the disk usage is sitting at 100% while I am just typing this up. No other programs are open or installed since I did the factory reset. I again disabled SuperFetch and Windows Search, still not helping at all.

I have screenshots of my System info and my resource monitor. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[rgd1101]

look like is some dell tools to update driver/app.
could disable/uninstall it, and just do it yourselves when you want to

 

[b00tsnspurs]

look like is some dell tools to update driver/app.
could disable/uninstall it, and just do it yourselves when you want to

I will definitely try that.

I also made this post on Dell's forums, and I was told there is no fix. That this will be the case until I switch to an SSD. And they recommended one to me.

 

[4R4]

This is happening to me too and I've looked all over the internet but I can't find anything :I

 

[britechguy]

Have either of you tried doing a completely clean reinstall (options a & b are downloadable PDF files)?:

a) Completely Clean Win10 (Re)install Using MCT to Download Win10 ISO File

b) Completely Clean Win10 (Re)install Using MCT to Create a Bootable USB Drive

c) How to do a CLEAN Installation of Windows 10 (Tom’s Hardware Forums, with screen shots)

You get a cleaner Windows 10 than using factory recovery since all the "bloatware" that generally comes with any machine these days is notably absent.

 

[b00tsnspurs]

Have either of you tried doing a completely clean reinstall (options a & b are downloadable PDF files)?:

a) Completely Clean Win10 (Re)install Using MCT to Download Win10 ISO File

b) Completely Clean Win10 (Re)install Using MCT to Create a Bootable USB Drive

c) How to do a CLEAN Installation of Windows 10 (Tom’s Hardware Forums, with screen shots)

You get a cleaner Windows 10 than using factory recovery since all the "bloatware" that generally comes with any machine these days is notably absent.

I will give this a shot before giving up completely. Thank you!